The Secret Agent - A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

$10.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Series: The Works of Joseph Conrad Volume Ten | Reading Level: good

The Pearl by John Steinbeck

$6.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good

Infante's Inferno by G Cabrera Infante

$14.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good

Changing Planes - Stories by Úrsula K Le Guin

$12.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

The National Book Award-winning author takes flight with this bestselling collection of speculative fiction where a woman visits fifteen otherworldly--yet familiar--societies. Sita Dulip has missed her flight. But instead of listening to garbled announcements, she has found a method of bypassing the ho rrors of the airport. This method--changing planes--enables Sita to visit fifteen societies not found on Earth. She will encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by ra≥ where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results... "A fantastical travel guide, reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels, in which the narrator visits fifteen planes and describes the people, language, and customs with the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist."--USA Today ...Show more

Q and A - A Novel by Vikas Swarup

$12.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut, which provided the inspiration for the award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, is a page-turning and beguiling story of love, perseverance, and drama. Vikas Swarup's remarkable debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held af ter correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question. Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history--from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal. Swarup's Q & A is a charming blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know--not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the struggle between good and evil--and what happens when one boy has no other choice in life but to survive. ...Show more

Vengeance is Mine by MIckey Spillane

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good

Twenty-three Tales by Leo Tolstory

$6.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Series: The World's Classics 72 | Reading Level: good

The Decameron - Two Volume Set by Giovanni Boccaccio

$45.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good

Remembrance of Things Past - 3 volume set by Marcel Proust / Moncrieff

$90.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics | Reading Level: very good

Proust's masterpiece is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century, recording its narrator's experiences as he grows up, falls in love and lives through the First World War. A profound reflection on art, time, memory, self and loss, it is often viewed as the definitive modern novel. C K Scott Mon crieff's famous translation from the 1920s is today regarded as a classic in its own right and is now available in three volumes in Penguin Classics. This first volume includes Swann's Way and Within a Budding Grove. Proust was born in Auteuil, France in 1871. He began writing his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu, in 1909, and worked on it until his death in 1922, following several years of poor health during which he had been confined to his bedroom. Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff was born in Scotland in 1889 and served on the Western Front in the First World War, where he was seriously injured at the Battle of Arras. In 1922, he started work on his famous translation of Proust's novel, taking his English title from Shakespeare's Sonnet 30. He was still translating the novel at the time of his death in Rome in 1930. "Scott Moncrieff's [volumes] belong to that special category of translations which are themselves literary masterpieces...his book is one of those translations, such as the Authorized Version of the Bible itself, which can never be displaced." (A N Wilson). "For the reader wishing to tackle Proust your guide must be C K Scott Moncrieff...There are some who believe his headily perfumed translation of A la recherche du temps perdu conjures Belle Epoque France more vividly even than the original." Telegraph 'I was more interested and fascinated by your rendering than by Proust's creation' - Joseph Conrad to Scott Moncrieff. ...Show more

The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macauley

$20.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good-very good

No's Knife - Collected Shorter Prose 1947-1966 by Samuel Beckett

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: good

Thomas Mann - Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann

$15.00 NZD

Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good